What is HackTool:Win32/Keygen?
The infamous HackTool:Win32/Keygen, or Troj/Keygen, has been traveling all across the World Wide Web for over tree years now. This treacherous application has been created for a truly devious purpose, which is to generate license keys for applications that get downloaded illegally. Despite this unlawful mission, the fraudulent application can do much more than you will initially expect, and behind the cunning license keys generating tool hides an infection that can compromise your system’s functionality and seriously endanger your personal privacy. Since the program is illegal and malicious there is no reason why you should postpone HackTool:Win32/Keygen removal.
It comes as no surprise that the cunning infection may enter any unprotected Windows system with an encrypted download of a completely illegal and bogus program, supposedly capable of producing keys for illegally acquired pieces of software. Once you download this program what you are actually letting in are malignant executables keygen.exe and install.exe. These will seem as completely legitimate elements; however, what these components can do is far from beneficial or useful. Keygen.exe can release various bogus pop-up messages, implement rootkit files to make it impossible to find and delete HackTool:Win32/Keygen. To serve the same purpose, the deceptive executable may also remove access to the Windows Registry Editor, Task Manager and Windows Security Center. What is more, the file is polymorphic, which means it can hide from removal by changing its structure, additionally to being able to tamper with the Registry, add malicious products and disable Safe Mode. This is not all, and keygen.exe can also record your passwords and usernames by logging keystrokes and mouse clicks, which could put your personal data and identity’s security at serious risk. Install.exe is another threat, and this file is responsible for creating unauthorized connections to remote servers and reconfiguring Internet browser settings.
It should already be clear that you need to remove HackTool:Win32/Keygen, because proclaimed services are merely presented to hide truly malicious intentions. If you are skilled enough to remove rootkits manually, you will be able to delete HackTool:Win32/Keygen using the guidance below. However, if you are not even sure what rootkits are or how to detect polymorphic elements – automatic removal software is your way to successfully cleaning out the system from horrible malware.
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